#power

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #bible #bunch #encounter #first

Immortality... Is that a super power? ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#power #super

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. ↗

— James Bovard

#dangerous #definition #friends #our #over

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#anything #embodied #even #free #god

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#asean #collaboration #development #different #hope

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#been #concentrated #enemy #liberty #power

I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes. ↗

— Tara Reid

#comes #eyes #i #i can #inside

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#any #evidence #executed #formed #him

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#equally #every #execute #indication #planned